PD Dr. Thomas Eberl

Research activities

My main field of interest is particle and neutrino physics, as well as neutrino astronomy.

I am a member of the ANTARES and KM3NeT collaborations. In ANTARES, I am a member of the experiment’s steering committee and institute board. My task is to coordinate the development and maintenance of data analysis tools. In addition, I co-coordinate the astrophysics working group. In KM3NeT, I am a member of the publication committee.

Previously, I worked in heavy-ion and hadron physics as a member of the HADES collaboration at TUM and GSI/FAIR, Darmstadt, and in computational astrophysics at MPA, Garching.

I am interested in the development and the application of machine learning methods to data analysis. I am a fellow of the European Coalition for AI in Fundamental Physics.

Information for students

• Annual School for Astroparticle Physics

List of supervised theses

A list of projects and theses that I have supervised or co-supervised.

• Bachelor’s Theses
  • Mona Dentler, Investigation of the One-Particle Approximation in the ANTARES simulation package KM3, 2012
  • Thomas Heid, Simulation Response of the optical modules in the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2012
  • Maximilian Müller, Atmosphärische Myonen mit ANTARES, 2012
  • Thomas Kittler, Erweiterung der Ereignisklassifizierung des ANTARES Neutrinoteleskops mittels Random Decision Forests, 2012
  • Veronika Ludwig, Elektronneutrino-Untergrund bei der Bestimmung der Neutrinomassenhierarchie mit ORCA, 2013
  • Michael Moser, Investigation and simulation of cascade-like neutrino events in ANTARES, 2014
  • Maximilian Schandri, Untersuchung von Biolumineszenz im ANTARES Neutrinoteleskop, 2015
  • Fabian Dawel, Untersuchung von Tauneutrinosimulationen für KM3Net-ORCA, 2016
  • Michail Goldes, Studies of the Influence of the Earth´s Topography on the Atmospheric Neutrino Flux, 2016
  • Sebastian Schindler, Study on detection of michel electrons in Super-ORCA, 2017
  • Patrick Heuer, Analysis of neutrino event generators for KM3NeT/ORCA, 2018
  • Jelena Celic, Unsupervised learning for identification of event topologies in ORCA, 2018
  • Benjamin Schwab, Alignment of KM3NeT/ORCA – Calibration of the AHRS data and investigation of the sea current, 2018
  • Sebastian Konrad, Sensitivity studies with intrinsic limit neutrino resolution for KM3NeT/ORCA, 2018
  • Julia Häfner, Reconstruction of the energy of muons and muon bundles via Graph Neural Networks in the ORCA detector, 2021
  • Lukas Hennig, Studies on systematic influences of the detector calibration on the reconstruction performance of Graph Neural Networks in KM3NeT, 2021
  • Sebastian Weissbrod, Sensitivity of KM3NeT/ORCA6 to tau neutrino appearance with Graph Neural Network tau neutrino identification, 2024
• Master’s and Diploma Theses
  • Sebastian Scholz, Untersuchung verschiedener Strategien für die Rekonstruktion von Myonenspuren mit dem ANTARES Detektor, 2007
  • Florian Folger, Reconstruction of neutrino-induced hadronic showers with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2009
  • Jutta Schnabel, Muon energy reconstruction for the neutrino telescope ANTARES using neural networks, 2010
  • Klaus Geyer, Ereignisklassifikation mit Hilfe von Neuronalen Netzen für das ANTARES Neutrinoteleskop, 2010
  • Stefanie Wagner, Entwicklung und Analyse eines Hitselektionsalgorithmus für Niedrigenergieereignisse im ANTARES Neutrinoteleskop basierend auf einer Hough-Transformation, 2010
  • Boris Bauermeister, Untersuchungen zur Nachweiseffizienz und zeitlichen Stabilität der Datennahme des ANTARES Neutrinoteleskops, 2010
  • Andreas Gleixner, Spezielle Methoden zur Berechnung der Geometrie des ANTARES-Detektors, 2011
  • Stefan Geißelsöder, Classification of events for the ANTARES neutrino detector, 2011
  • Gerold v. Lachemair, Muon energy reconstruction for ANTARES in the low-energy range using artificial neural networks, 2011
  • Thomas Heid, Flavor identification in ORCA, 2013
  • Oskar Schneider, Influence of bioluminescence on the ANTARES data taking and track reconstruction, 2013
  • Tamas Gal, Trigger studies for the future neutrino telescope ORCA, 2013
  • Thomas Kittler, Development of an algorithm for the distinction between muon and electron neutrino events for the P2O plausibility study, 2015
  • Michel Kreter, Search for neutrinos from flaring blazars – A time-dependent point source analysis, 2015
  • Steffen Hallmann, Search for a neutrino signal from the Fermi Bubbles with the ANTARES telescope, 2015
  • Marco Volkert, A muon veto for the measurement of the downgoing neutrino flux with KM3NeT/ORCA, 2017
  • Stefan Reck, Investigating systematics for KM3NeT/ORCA using unsupervised Deep Learning, 2018
  • Marc Bruchner, Sensitivity Studies for the ORCA and Super-ORCA Neutrino Detector, 2018
  • Lukas Maderer, Sensitivity to tau-neutrino appearance with the first seven strings of KM3NeT/ORCA, 2019
  • Johannes Schumann, Analysis of first KM3NeT/ORCA Data and Information Field Theory methods applied to ANTARES Data, 2019
  • Nicole Geißelbrecht, Event Classification and Energy Reconstruction for ANTARES using Convolutional Neural Networks, 2021
  • Nadja Lessing, Sensitivity to quantum decoherence in neutrino oscillations with KM3NeT, 2022
  • Martin Schneider, Measuring the attenuation length of seawater in KM3NeT/ORCA with atmospheric muons, 2022
  • Lukas Hennig, Tau neutrino identification with Graph Neural Networks in KM3NeT/ORCA, 2023
  • Yara Darras, Investigations of Hadronic vs Electromagnetic Cascade Identification at The PeV Energy Scale in KM3Net, 2023
  • Bastian Setter, Optimisation of energy reconstruction with sample weights for GNNs in KM3NeT/ORCA6, 2024
  • Michail Chadolias, Detection of low-energy tau neutrinos with the ANTARES neutrino telescope – a feasibility study, 2024
• PhD Theses
  • Felix Fehr, Systematic studies, calibration, and software development for event reconstruction and data analysis using the ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope, 2010
  • Friederike Schöck, Studies on atmospheric neutrino oscillations with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2011
  • Holger Motz, Dark matter searches with ANTARES, 2011
  • Florian Folger, Search for a diffuse cosmic neutrino flux using shower events in the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2014
  • Ulf Fritsch, Cluster search for neutrinos from Active Galactic Nuclei, 2014
  • Kerstin Fehn, Search for neutrinos from TANAMI observed AGN using Fermi loghtcurves with ANTARES, 2015
  • Stefanie Wagner, Search for cosmic neutrino emission from Milagro sources with ANTARES, 2015
  • Klaus Geyer, Measurements of the atmospheric muon rate with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2015
  • Stefan Geißelsöder, Model-independent search for neutrino sources with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2016
  • Kathrin Roensch, Development of a new reconstruction algorithm for ANTARES events and application to a search for neutrino point sources, 2016
  • Andreas Gleixner, Search for Dark Matter towards the center of the Earth with the ANTARES neutrino telescope, 2016
  • Jannik Hofestädt, Measuring the neutrino mass hierarchy with the future KM3NeT/ORCA detector, 2017
  • Jutta Schnabel, Search for a cosmic neutrino flux from all neutrino flavours with ANTARES, 2018
  • Thomas Heid, Characterizing the diffuse neutrino flux with the future KM3NeT/ARCA detector, 2018
  • Michael Moser, Sensitivity studies on tau neutrino appearance with KM3NeT/ORCA using Deep Learning Techniques, 2020
  • Steffen Hallmann, Sensitivity to atmospheric tau-neutrino appearance and all-flavour search for neutrinos from the Fermi Bubbles with the deep-sea telescopes KM3NeT/ORCA and ANTARES, 2021
  • Stefan Reck, Cosmic-ray composition measurement using Graph Neural Networks for KM3NeT/ORCA, 2022